Diorama Still-Life

This painting was created as an assignment for Intermediate Painting, a course I took as an undergraduate student at Juniata College.

For this assignment, we were first asked to create our own unique still-life diorama, then tasked with painting it. In the interest of time, we were instructed to print and use transfer paper to trace some contours as a base for the painting; specifically, the professor told us, "This is not a drawing course; this is a painting course. I want to see your ability to paint, not your ability to draw."

The still photo below depicts the final illustration; the embedded YouTube video showcases a series of "work-in-progress" photos that I took throughout the creation of the piece.